You should check to see if a driver for your sound card has been installed; XP may not have one for your card. You can check this by right-clicking My Computer, selecting Properties, going to the Hardware tab, and launching the Device Manager. If any devices have a yellow question mark, then they do not have a driver installed. You need to find a driver for the card, either on the computer manufacturer's site, or the producer of the sound card (ie. Yamaha, Creative, Intel, etc...).
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Download a driver for your sound card.
You will have to re-install all your old programs once you've upgraded Windows to a more recent version. They should work, but without knowing which programs you're using I cannot give a definite 'yes' or 'no'.
check the sound card driver from device manager..
1. Make sure you installed a driver for your sound card. 2. Make sure your speakers are plugged in.
Windows 98, Windows ME, and Windows 2000 all support upgrading directly from Windows 95. Your system must meet the requirements in order to upgrade, however.
According to my findings, Windows 8 Consumer Preview cannot be upgraded to Windows 8 Professional. The operating system is 'dead-ended' and must be removed from the system first. I have found that there are some technical tutorials that show users how this can be done, but it is a much longer and trickier process.
You should be able to as it will to it anyway. If there is no start up then just insert it into the XP OS and start from there.
You need to find vista compatible driver for you sound card. Try first the motherboard manufacture website. If it did not work use google.
Right-click on "My Computer" and select "Properties". You should see it at the bottom of the window it opened.
Windows laptop computer refers to the operating system in the computer. This operating system is where your virtual memory, task, and files are stored.
Windows is the operating system on a Microsoft computer or an Apple computer running windows drivers. Without windows your computer would not work.